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Re: Low Registration Sinks Tea Party Convention

Originally Posted by jamesrage

How can the tea "party" not be too embedded with the republican party when they are republicans? If the Tea party was truly an actual party then they would have actually formed their own party not be republicans pretending to not be republicans even though they still carry the big R next to their name.

Re: Low Registration Sinks Tea Party Convention

Your one chart kinda confuses me .. cause according to liberals like yourself .. tax hikes on the rich are suppose to increase what they pay in taxes ..

Yet according to your now and then dot graph .. after Reagan tac cuts the millionares tax was 47.7% ….. then after clinton raised them to 39% their tax rate actually was reduced to 36.4%??

you're own data is saying that Clinton cut the taxes to the rich by 8.7% over what Reagan did . While Bush only cut the top rate by 4% ….. so you own data shows that Clinton “cut” the tax on the rich by more then Bush.

Re: Low Registration Sinks Tea Party Convention

Originally Posted by disneydude

Its funny how the right-wingers like to use that map of the United States....what they don't tell you is that 80% of the PEOPLE of this country live in the blue colored areas. Most of the red flyover areas are sparsley populated.

Honestly.

If trees and rocks could vote, the Republicans would have a lock on elections.

Re: Low Registration Sinks Tea Party Convention

Originally Posted by TheDemSocialist

Hey i like this conservative. He "gets it"

Jamesrage doesn't appear to actually get it at all. Maybe in his neck of the woods it might reflect that, but I can tell you with 100% confidence that the local Tea Party in my area is full of independants, and yes, about 10% Democrats.. Democrats that happened to vote for Obama. IN the three meetings I've attended, the focus of meetings is completely bi-partisan, and we discuss the issues, not party politics.

Tim-

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Re: Low Registration Sinks Tea Party Convention

This 'movement' has already peaked and this is evidence of that fact.

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Re: Low Registration Sinks Tea Party Convention

Originally Posted by jamesrage

How can the tea "party" not be too embedded with the republican party when they are republicans? If the Tea party was truly an actual party then they would have actually formed their own party not be republicans pretending to not be republicans even though they still carry the big R next to their name.

That is 100% spot on. The 'party' part of their name is a true oxymoron. Too bad George Carlin is not around to use that one.

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There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.... John Rogers

Re: Low Registration Sinks Tea Party Convention

Originally Posted by Hicup

Jamesrage doesn't appear to actually get it at all. Maybe in his neck of the woods it might reflect that, but I can tell you with 100% confidence that the local Tea Party in my area is full of independants, and yes, about 10% Democrats.. Democrats that happened to vote for Obama. IN the three meetings I've attended, the focus of meetings is completely bi-partisan, and we discuss the issues, not party politics.

Tim-

How many of the of the Tea "Party" candidates are independent or democrat? The voters may be a mix of independents, democrats and republicans but it still does not change the fact that all the so called tea party candidates are republicans. If I am wrong then please show me how I am wrong.

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear"

Re: Low Registration Sinks Tea Party Convention

Originally Posted by disneydude

Its funny how the right-wingers like to use that map of the United States....what they don't tell you is that 80% of the PEOPLE of this country live in the blue colored areas. Most of the red flyover areas are sparsley populated.

Source?

80%, not even close. Each house district has relatively the same population and since Republicans control the house 242-193 I would say it is pretty safe to assume that most Americans live in a Republican controlled district. Is the margin as big as that map might make it seem? No, but your claim is probably further from the truth.

Re: Low Registration Sinks Tea Party Convention

Originally Posted by winston53660

So much for the "grass roots" huh?

More puzzling is for anyone that "Likes" the OP, seems to indicate their approval of irresponsible government. That's what the Tea Party is trying to end. It all goes back to whom you want to fail, irresponsible government or responsible government.

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"Fly-over" country voted, and The Donald is now POTUS.